Re: [exim] Automatic /var/spool/mail cleaning

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Autor: Cédric MARCOUX (sprimont)
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A: exim-users
Assumpte: Re: [exim] Automatic /var/spool/mail cleaning
Finally found a great tools:
http://adc-archmbox.sourceforge.net/

Using command like this work like a charm:
archmbox -k -o 15 /var/spool/mail/*

Regards,


Chris Lightfoot a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:31:55AM +0200, "Cédric MARCOUX (sprimont)" wrote:
>> Hi!
>> I have set a new router to deliver a copy of my mails to an exchange
>> server using this settings:
>>
>> exchange2003:
>>       driver = manualroute
>>       domains = +local_domains
>>       transport = remote_smtp
>>       route_list = * 192.168.123.254
>>       unseen = true

>>
>> With this settings, I keep the mail on my Linux server, this is a good
>> thing since I have a little backup on my linux.
>>
>> But I would like to know if there is a procedure to cleanup
>> /var/spool/mail/%users% by deleting mail older then 3 month for exemple
>>
>> Hope someone got a solution,
>
> if you're delivering to maildirs, then Craig Whitmore's
> solution is about right. If you're delivering to
> mailspools, then this tool:
>     http://www.mythic-beasts.com/downloads/trimfolder-20041010.tar.gz
> will do sort of what you want (but it trims to constant
> size, rather than constant age of oldest message). Another
> possibility would be to deliver mail to mailspools whose
> name changes daily (e.g. /var/spool/mail/chris/20060720)
> and then use a find command to nuke the old ones.

>